Sometimes You Eat the Goat...

Sometimes You Eat the Goat... is a multi-channel video and mixed media installation that explores our nuanced relationship to achievement and competition through the lenses of power and complicity. While this body of work began at the Wassaic Project in New York, the concepts involved emerged from a Fulbright Nehru grant period spent in India. While observing goats wandering the streets of Southern India, I was taken by their ability to rise above — quite literally.

Sometimes You Eat the Goat... includes footage of a piñata party I hosted for several goats in Wassaic, New York. During the festivities, the goats used an Olympic-style medal award stand to leverage their height and vie for access to a goat-shaped piñata made from vegetables. The installation include a large-scale arced projection screen suggesting the arc of a stadium, as well as a kinetic carved foam sculptural acting as a monolith dedicated to achievement.

OUH HUO

2017

video stills

These stills are from a video of a TED talk by Hans Ulrich Obrist (HUO) re-contextualized and re-performed based on its (inaccurate) Youtube subtitles. The piece creates a parody of the use of TED to share ideas, while examining the opacity of art speak, made even denser through the misinterpretation in subtitles.